red letter day
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[edit] Etymology
From the practice of marking feast-days in red on church calendars.
[edit] Noun
- (idiomatic) A particularly significant day (personal or sectarian), usually very positive, sometimes very negative.
- Monday was a red letter day for her. She accomplished a lot and had fun doing it.
- We saw losses for the days in a row, but Black Tuesday was the worst red letter day of them all.
- 1975, John Ankenbruck, Twentieth Century History of Fort Wayne - Page 286
- "In the meantime, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre at Chicago was a red-letter day in the gangster wars."
